Lightweight Authentication Protocols on Ultra-Constrained RFIDs - Myths and Facts

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of lightweight devices with low cost, low power, and short-ranged wireless communication. The sensors can communicate with each other to form a network. In WSNs, broadcast transmission is widely used along with the maximum usage of wireless networks and their applications. Hence, it has become crucial to authenticate broadcast messages. Key management is also an active research topic in WSNs. Several key management schemes have been introduced, and their benefits are not recognized in a specific WSN application. Security services are vital for ensuring the integrity, authenticity, and confidentiality of the critical information. Therefore, the authentication mechanisms are required to support these security services and to be resilient to distinct attacks. Various authentication protocols such as key management protocols, lightweight authentication protocols, and broadcast authentication protocols are compared and analyzed for all secure transmission applications. The major goal of this survey is to compare and find out the appropriate protocol for further research. Moreover, the comparisons between various authentication techniques are also illustrated.

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A Lightweight Authentication and Encryption Protocol for Secure Communications Between Resource-Limited Devices Without Hardware Modification

Security and Privacy Management, Techniques, and Protocols - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5583-4.ch001 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1-46

Author(s):

Piotr Ksiazak ◽

William Farrelly ◽

Kevin Curran

Keyword(s):

Ubiquitous Computing ◽

Secure Communications ◽

Wireless Devices ◽

Authentication Protocols ◽

It Industry ◽

Processing Power ◽

Resource Limited ◽

Encryption Algorithms ◽

Lightweight Authentication ◽

Lightweight Encryption

In this chapter, the authors examine the theoretical context for the security of wireless communication between ubiquitous computing devices and present an implementation that addresses this need. The number of resource-limited wireless devices utilized in many areas of the IT industry is growing rapidly. Some of the applications of these devices pose real security threats that can be addressed using authentication and cryptography. Many of the available authentication and encryption software solutions are predicated on the availability of ample processing power and memory. These demands cannot be met by most ubiquitous computing devices; thus, there is a need to apply lightweight cryptography primitives and lightweight authentication protocols that meet these demands in any application of security to devices with limited resources. The analysis of the lightweight solutions is divided into lightweight authentication protocols and lightweight encryption algorithms. The authors present a prototype running on the nRF9E5 microcontroller that provides necessary authentication and encryption on resource-limited devices.

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Revisiting lightweight authentication protocols based on hard learning problems

Proceedings of the sixth ACM conference on Security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks - WiSec '13 ◽

10.1145/2462096.2462118 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Panagiotis Rizomiliotis ◽

Stefanos Gritzalis

Keyword(s):

Learning Problems ◽

Authentication Protocols ◽

Lightweight Authentication

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A Revised Serverless Authentication Protocol with Forward Security for RFID

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.29-32.2267 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 29-32 ◽

pp. 2267-2272

Author(s):

Lei He ◽

Yong Gan ◽

Na Na Li ◽

Tao Zhang

Keyword(s):

Computational Complexity ◽

Information Security ◽

Privacy Protection ◽

Authentication Protocol ◽

Forward Security ◽

Authentication Protocols ◽

Rfid System ◽

Security Problem ◽

Lightweight Authentication

Information security problem has become one of the hottest issues in RFID system. More and more researchers begin to study how to provide security protection in the RFID system. In the paper, we mainly research lightweight authentication protocols in RFID system. Firstly, we analyze some protocols. Secondly, we introduce a serverless authentication protocol for RFID system and analyze its security. We find it does not provide forward security. Thirdly, we propose a revised serverless authentication protocol with forward security. It provides two-way authentication and privacy protection, resists tracking and cloning attack as well as the original protocol. Moreover, it provides forward security protection and resists desynchronization attack. For the efficiency, its computational complexity is at the same level with the protocol proposed by Tan et al.

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Survey and Analysis of Lightweight Authentication Mechanisms

10.5772/intechopen.94407 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Adarsh Kumar ◽

Deepak Kumar Sharma

Keyword(s):

Radio Frequency Identification ◽

Security Protocols ◽

Resource Constraint ◽

Authentication Protocols ◽

Security Challenges ◽

Frequency Identification ◽

Security Standards ◽

Lightweight Authentication ◽

Passive Rfid ◽

Day By Day

Interconnection of devices through Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) brings enormous applications that are increasing constantly day by day. Due to the rapid growth of such applications, security of RFID networks becomes crucial and is a major challenge. Classical or lightweight cryptography primitives and protocols are the solutions to enhance the security standards in such networks. Authentication protocols are one of the important security protocols required to be integrated before exchange of secured information. This work surveyed the recently developed authentication protocols. Further, classifications, security challenges, and attack analysis are explored. A comparative analysis of different types of authentication protocols explains their applications in resourceful and resource constraint Internet of Things (IoT). Authentication protocols are categorized into: symmetric, asymmetric, lightweight, ultra-lightweight and group protocols. Symmetric and asymmetric protocols are more suitable for resourceful devices whereas lightweight and ultra-lightweight protocols are designed for resource constraint devices. Security and cost analysis shows that asymmetric protocols provide higher security than any other protocol at a reasonable cost. However, lightweight authentication protocols are suitable for passive RFID devices but do not provide full security.

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Security of an RFID Based Authentication Protocol with Bitwise Operations for Supply Chain

10.21203/rs.3.rs-413438/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Muhammad Arslan Akram ◽

Adnan Noor Mian

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Low Cost ◽

Authentication Protocol ◽

Rfid Tags ◽

Authentication Protocols ◽

Physically Unclonable Functions ◽

Lightweight Authentication ◽

Secure Authentication ◽

Bitwise Operations

Abstract Due to the stringent computational capabilities of low-cost RFID tags, several lightweight secure authentication protocols have been proposed for an RFID-based supply chain using bitwise operations. In this paper, we study the vulnerabilities associated with bitwise operations by doing cryptanalysis of a secure lightweight authentication protocol for RFID tags. The bitwise operations like rotation and XOR show that the protocol is vulnerable to tag, reader, and supply chain node impersonation attacks. We find that the major cause of the vulnerability is bitwise operations and suggest using the physically unclonable functions rather than bitwise operations to secure such lightweight protocols.

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A Review of Protocols Design in Secure and Efficient Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

10.35940/ijitee.i7205.079920 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 541-546

Keyword(s):

Wireless Sensor Networks ◽

Sensor Networks ◽

Key Management ◽

Sensor Nodes ◽

Wireless Sensor ◽

Authentication Protocols ◽

The Core ◽

Shared Information ◽

Management Schemes ◽

Lightweight Authentication

Majority of the applications demand confidentiality and integrity of the shared information using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Key management schemes are one of the core concepts that ensure the security of WSNs. Prior key management schemes failed to provide required security arrangements in WSNs. Authentication is the core parameters that assess the capability of the deployed sensor nodes in the communication fields. In this paper, we review the existing authentication protocols by stating its merits and demerits. It is observed that the need for a secure and efficient authentication protocol is still in demand, owing to the real issues like identity overheads, information retrieval and location mining. This paper will assist the upcoming researchers to have an insight into the significance of lightweight authentication protocols in WSNs.

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